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Europe · The modern states

Serbia and Montenegro

drawn on the map 1992–2024

After the secessions of 1991–92, Serbia and Montenegro constituted the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) on 27 April 1992, claiming (unsuccessfully) to be the sole legal successor to the SFRY. Under Slobodan Milošević, the FRY was implicated in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, subjected to sanctions, and — over its crackdown in Kosovo — bombed by NATO in 1999.

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Shown on the map
1992–2024
Peak area
149k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

After the secessions of 1991–92, Serbia and Montenegro constituted the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) on 27 April 1992, claiming (unsuccessfully) to be the sole legal successor to the SFRY. Under Slobodan Milošević, the FRY was implicated in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, subjected to sanctions, and — over its crackdown in Kosovo — bombed by NATO in 1999. Milošević fell in October 2000 and was later tried at The Hague (dying in custody in 2006). In 2003 the federation was loosely reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, a fragile arrangement that dissolved when Montenegro voted for independence in 2006, ending the last vestige of the Yugoslav state name.

Common questions

What was Serbia and Montenegro?
After the secessions of 1991–92, Serbia and Montenegro constituted the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) on 27 April 1992, claiming (unsuccessfully) to be the sole legal successor to the SFRY. Under Slobodan Milošević, the FRY was implicated in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, subjected to sanctions, and — over its crackdown in Kosovo — bombed by NATO in 1999.
When is Serbia and Montenegro shown on the map?
The border data draws Serbia and Montenegro 1992–2024. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was Serbia and Montenegro?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Serbia and Montenegro covered about 149,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each state as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the ICTY and the 2004 Wiesel Commission for genocide and atrocity figures, and current news reporting (Reuters, AP, BBC, and others) for 2025–2026 political developments, which should be verified against live sources. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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